5 JANUARY 1940, page 19

I Find It Difficult, None The Less, To Express In

words my gratitude to Providence for having spared me the ordeals which my friends accept with such silent and pathetic forti- tude. As I listen to their great boots clattering......

I Have Often Held The Belief That It Is A

fine thing for the sons of the privileged classes to endure a process of decon- tamination from class superiority, and I have envied conti- nental countries their systems of......

I Comfort Myself With The Belief That Great Social Benefit

may in the end accrue from the democratisation of our fight- ing forces. I comfort myself also by the reflection that it cuts both ways. Before Mr. Hore-Belisha issued his......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON II PON the mantelpiece in my sitting room is accumulating a collection of grisly photographs printed upon post- cards. Since the first days of the war I have......

I Am Confirmed In This General Observation By The Collec-

tion to which I am now devoting so much of my time. These postcards might at first sight be taken for portraits of some of the more perky denizens of Dartmoor or Parkhurst. But......